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Duplicate an object to a new instance so that changes propagate to children?

ryan9CXU3 — Thu, 21 May 2020 16:06:04 GMT

How do you create a new instance from object so that when you make changes to the original parent object the children inherit them?

Docs looked like shift+D or shift+ctrl+D but if I dup a ball with those then change the parent object size the dup does not change?

In blender this is alt+D.

Re: Duplicate an object to a new instance so that changes propagate to children?

mspeer — Thu, 21 May 2020 20:04:50 GMT

Hi!

Open the Settings for Duplicate Special and set it to "Instance".

Re: Duplicate an object to a new instance so that changes propagate to children?

Abdulla-Qaladzay — Thu, 21 May 2020 20:31:02 GMT

Hi @ryan9CXU3

instance duplicate is working on component ID

if we scale and translate the instance or the original in object-mode it does't affect the others

if we need that behavior "an instance object that works with object ID and component ID"

-we can use constraints or connection editor "connectAttr " with the instance objects, watch the video attachment "instanceObjects.mp4"

-or simply we can use scale and translate all the components in order to achieve the same behavior.